Improved blacking-cabinet



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Letters Patent No. 92,838, (lated July 20, 1869.

IMPRovED :BLAcrlnNG-CABINET.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent nd making part of the same.

To whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Lawson I. KEACH, of Baltimore, Maryland, have invented a certain new and useful improvementfor enclosing, in a small and convenient portable cabinet, the apparatus for blacking boots or slices ou the feet, by which the dust and dirt, necessarily attending the cleaning and blacking the same, are confined to the enclosure during the process, and when finished, the dust may be easily emptied from the end of said cabinet, and the same neatly closed, confining the blacking-implements in the smallest compass, suitable for gentlemen travelling, as well as at home, the following, heilig a`full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying.

drawing, which forms part of thisispecification.

My improvement consists in theformation of a box, which opens right `and left, leavig'the bottom board flat, on which are permanently and securely fastened two boards, (edgewise,) sufficient, iu width and length, to form a support for the foot While the leather is being blacked, and being separated about half an inch apart, leaves between them a space convenient and exactly suiiicient to receive and securely hold the handle of the brush when not iu use.

On the inner surface ofthe two sid'es of the box or cabinet, the box of paste-blacking, and its cover, may be secured either by clamps, or by any' other suitable fastening, and a cover, of tin or other suitable material, secured at one side, so that the same may open and shut, protects the blacking in the box from thev dust brushed from the leather preparatory t'o blacking` it.

Claims.'

the Hacking-receptacles and' covers, constructed as described.

3. Making the footfrest in sections, to serve as a re ceptaele for the brush-handle, as described.

LAWSON l). KEACH.

XVitnesses:

GoDFnnY MATHYS, WM. (li/nil. KEACH. 

